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Better yet, here's the paper itself: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4675401

It's not yet been peer-reviewed, though, but it is at least free to access.

Thanks for the link. However, it says that it's a Saudi Arabian blockade, the US participated at the beginning but was not the driving force behind it and did not stay for long.

However, in mid-2016 and amid escalating, international concerns regarding some of the strategic initiatives undertaken by the Saudi Arabian military in the conflict, the U.S. pulled back significantly on its participation in this joint planning cell, reducing its staff commitment to only five US workers.

US involvement since then has primarily been the supply of weapons. Like I say, the only real winners are arms dealers.

It's probably your browser settings that is causing that.

For me, I have a slightly different issue. I come to the page (website on desktop, not a phone app) logged in, but all the images for posts and links haven't loaded. If I reload the images will appear again, but it logs me out. After logging in again the problem is resolved.

It's annoying, but it's just a little dance I have to do every so often.

lemm.ee has always been one of the most stable instances lol. When other instances had issues in the past, lemm.ee was typically immune already, and our admin was front and centre helping the other instances out.

There were issues with 0.19.0, which have now largely been addressed. The site here is as speedy as ever now.

The US plans for a lot of situations, as does any competent military. Are you trying to say that the US intended to make these strikes all along, rather than in retaliation for strikes against them?

The ships are there to protect trade. Up until now, they have been focused on shooting down missiles and preventing attacks on trade ships. They're also there to bring a bigger gun to protect Israel if anyone wants to jump into war with them. There is an element of bullshit to this, as the US is basically allowing Israel to commit genocide, but at the same time the US is supposed to protect its allies.

Most of the ships that have been targeted by the Houthis were not going to Israeli ports and have no affiliation with Israel. When they have claimed there was some affiliation, it's really obtuse and far fetched - like one guy in a parent company that has no real involvement with the ship or its cargo.

I don't know the specifics of the US' previous blockade or the famine in Yemen. If you can point me to some information on that I'd appreciate it, right now my searches are drowned out in coverage of the latest events. However, the whole conflict in Yemen is a mess of proxy parties fighting on behalf of others, it's a tangled web with no good parties - as usual, the only ones really winning are the people selling weapons.

How had the ship "basically declared war on them"? Why is the ship there?

If you fire on someone with a big gun, it should be no surprise when they fire back.

I wouldn't expect a website like this to be embedded, not from a url to the page.

The website absolutely is sketchy, there's plenty of dodgy connections eg Facebook and Google. Why use an alternative to YouTube when you're' still connecting to Google??

They also fired directly at US warships preceding this attack.

I thought Poochie was too cool for earth and went back to his home planet?

"May" be worsening? I think it's abundantly clear that it is.